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  • R Roger Wright

    Check the Event Viewer. Some services may be set to restart automatically on failure, and you may be experiencing a failure on shutdown. Also, if you've recently restarted your computer it will remember that last action, and set the default shut-down mode to Restart.

    "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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    JustWorking
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    Can the Service Control Manager do it?

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      unplug the cable, if someone does want to 'illegally' come into your office somehow (cleaning personal mostly have keys to all the doors) he/she will plug it in again...

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      JustWorking
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      From all the idea up here this one I like the most :-D you have my 5

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      • J JustWorking

        This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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        0x3c0
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        It's called Wake On LAN, and I've got no idea why somebody would do that to your computer. You can read more about it here[^].

        OSDev :)

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        • J JustWorking

          This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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          Mark_Wallace
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          Pull the plug. Better yet, pull the plug in the back of the machine out just enough to disconnect the power, and put a box or something next to it, to make it look accidental.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          • J JustWorking

            This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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            We use remote wakeup for a weekly full virus scan. With the added benefit that my computer is already at the login screen monday morning.

            Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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            • R Rajesh R Subramanian

              Cpianism wrote:

              Do you mean if they run an update they start my computer?

              It's about sending certain bits in sequence (forming a "magic packet") to the machine in question over the network. If the hardware supports it and if WOL is enabled, then this would "wake up" the machine. You also have an option of reading through the link that I provided, which explains the whole thing in detail! :|

              “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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              Abhinav S
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              Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

              (forming a "magic packet")

              :omg: So which book should I refer to get to read about magic packets. ;)

              Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
              Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...

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                We use remote wakeup for a weekly full virus scan. With the added benefit that my computer is already at the login screen monday morning.

                Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
                | FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server

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                And I find the login screen everyday, doesn't this harm the computer by keeping it runing all night?

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                  Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

                  (forming a "magic packet")

                  :omg: So which book should I refer to get to read about magic packets. ;)

                  Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
                  Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...

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                  Rajesh R Subramanian
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                  Well, if that's a serious question, then the wiki article I linked to explains this.

                  “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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                  • J JustWorking

                    And I find the login screen everyday, doesn't this harm the computer by keeping it runing all night?

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                    peterchen
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                    Computers are started monday early in the morning, so it ain't "running all the night". Booting up in a domain is a bit ugly, there is one sync process before the login, the other one after that, and they may take some time. So yeah, it's benefit :) Leaving the machine running overnight wouldn't be much of a problem. Some components - e.g. hard drives - may get more wear through power-up than through idling around. But the company is afraid of the fire hazard, so normally most machines are shut down.

                    Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
                    | FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server

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                    • J JustWorking

                      This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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                      The Sky Winner
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                      If you haven't switched off the main connection. i.e. the switch of the plug to which your power cord is connected, then there are chances, that if you switch on other switches that are running through same line, it switches on your PC. At my home in my room, I have PC's power cord connected to a plug. If by mistake I don't switch off it, there is another switch in the room that lights on my room's tube light, switching on tubelight sends signal to my PC to turn on. Strange but true.

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                      • J JustWorking

                        This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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                        Amarnath S
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                        Perhaps your office is haunted. Consult a ghostbuster.

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                        • J JustWorking

                          Yes I'm sure and I wait it to shutdown then go because with today it happen for 5 times this week :sigh:

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                          CalvinHobbies
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                          I don'tthink you need a tech, you need a Priest. If it's MS product go with a Rabi, if it's Open source, go for a Eunch developer... (I love that tag line)

                          ///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principles, if you don't like them… I have others.

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                          • J JustWorking

                            This is not a programming question but I don't know where else I can post this. For the past week every day I leave my work I shutdown my computer, the problem is when I come back next day I find it turned on :omg: knowing that no one work in my office after I leave and I close the door of my office and luck it with my key so no one can enter my room. Did anyone of you faced samething? and I want to know know if it is possible to start my computer over the network :confused: and if it possible to the computer to be turned on after a cetian time automatically if yes how can I stop it. I just want to come back and find my computer turned off when I come in the morning. Thanks in advance

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                            PIEBALDconsult
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                            I turn off the monitor and speakers and such when I leave, but I never shut down the system itself. If it's a company computer and the company performs backups or whatever at night, you should not interfere with it.

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